200th person released by DNA testing

The 200th person has been released by DNA testing, as reported in the HeraldNet and elsewhere.

I don't know about you, but I was shocked when I heard that number! How can at least 200 innocent people wind up being convicted beyond a reasonable doubt!!!??? How's that saying go? Better to let 10 guilty go free than to send 1 innocent person to jail?

Thank God for DNA testing, or those innocent people would still be serving time, or worse yet, gotten the death penalty!!! I realize our Justice system isn't perfect, but I just don't understand how this can happen. I wonder how many of those people wrongly accused were sent to prison by a Judge vs. a Jury.

Just some fodder for thought.